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Tour Code: L-BJ05

6 Days Luxury of Beijing - Datong - Beijing: Starting from $419 per person; Luxury | Standard

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Day by Day Itinerary

Departure: Daily

Tiananmen Tower, Beijing

Day 01: Arrival in Beijing
Our guide will pick you up at Beijing airport and transfer to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own to explore the city.

Accommodation: Crowne Plaza

Day 02: Beijing - Datong
Visit the Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace. Take the overnight soft sleeper train to Datong. (B+L+D)

Accommodation: an overnight soft sleeper train

Day 03: Datong
Transfer to the hotel. Visit the Yungang Grottoes, the Huayan Monastery, Shanhua Monastery and the Nine Dragon Screen. (B+L)

Accommodation: Datong Hotel

Yungang Caves, Datong

Day 04: Datong - Beijing
Full day tour to the Hanging Monastery and the Sakyamuni Wooden Pagoda at Fuoguang Temple in Yingxian County. Take the overnight soft sleeper train back to Beijing. (B+L+D)

Accommodation: an overnight soft sleeper train

Day 05: Beijing
Arrive in Beijing in the morning. After having breakfast at the hotel, visit the Badaling Great Wall. To avoid having lunch at shopping site restaurants, you will be driven to have Sichuan food at a local popular restaurant. Visit the Ming Tomb in the afternoon. The Beijing Duck Dinner is served at a famous restaurant followed by a lively Peking Opera performance at the Liyuan Theatre. (B+L+D)

Accommodation: Crowne Plaza

Day 06: Departure from Beijing
Visit the Temple of Heaven. See off. (B)

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Prices (based on per person and shown in US dollars)

Prices (Valid from Mar. 1st, 2008 to Feb. 28th, 2009)

Group size

Season

2-5 travelers

6-9 travelers

10 travelers & above

High season

Double Occupancy

$749

$579

$509

Sole Occupancy

$949

$769

$699

Low season

Double Occupancy

$709

$529

$419

Sole Occupancy

$859

$679

$519

Remark : Quotations listed are valid excluding the periods of Olympic Games staying in Beijing.

Inclusions

Soft-sleeper train tickets as specified;
Hotels with daily western breakfasts;
Daily lunches and/or dinners at local finest restaurants;
Excellent individual guide & driver;

Private air-conditioned car or van for land transportation;
Entrance fees to all tourist sites;
Two bottles of mineral water per day;
Government taxes.

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The above private guided tour is tailored for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other participants will be in your group. In other words, others will not join in your tour and you will not take part into any tours of others on our land services.

The hanging monastery is built half way the steep cliff of the for Taoists holy Heng mountain. To visit the hanging monastery you have to climb the steep steps first. The monastery is built at this spectacular place to avoid the regular floods of river, and it is from 600 AD and built during the Northern Wei dynasty. The natural hollows of the cilff were used to place the buttresses. In the temple are 40 big and small halls connected with each other by corridors and narrow steep steps. It's quite an adventure to visit all these halls. Nowadays there is a dam regulating the river and creating a reservoir, which is used for irrigating the dry area. It was a pity that a large part of the monastery was under reconstruction, when we visited. So we couldn't see the monastery in its full glory.

Client's information:: Ms.sachara , Argentina , 2008-3-31 17:03

Some hints and tips about Beijing left for other travellers on my experience:

1. Beijing is pretty big. It's probably best to hire a bicycle or, if elderly, perhaps make use of the rickshaws, etc. My opinion is that staying in and around Wanfugin Dajie is the best place for travellers to stay even though the street itself itself is not exactly the side of China one probably wants to see (gaudy consumerism).

2. Say no to all people wishing to 'practice english' with you. Just say no. Honestly. NO MATTER HOW NICE THEY SEEM. NO MATTER HOW NICE.

3. A lot of people may ask to have their photo taken with you (if you're non-Chinese) or you might notice people attempting to take photos of you. Although Point 2 above might make you a little wary, those who wish to take a photo of or with an 'exotic looking' foreigner are generally harmless and have no ulterior motives.

4. Forbidden City is the best. A mecca for tourists. The renovation is making it look fabulous. Unfortunately the Hall of Supreme Harmony had some scaffolding still on it when I was there but that didn't detract at all from the general experience.

5. Summer Palace - beware taxi drivers at the gate. I decided to take a taxi back to the city and, from previous experience with taxis, realised that the meter was running at an astronomically fast rate. I instructed the driver to let me out asap and he obliged, at an akward highway type area. I picked up another taxi that was fine however. I did hear of a couple of cases of female travellers being especially ripped off by the taxis. The simple solution is to point at the meter at the start of the journey - they all have them.

6. Always have toilet paper on your person whilst in Beijing and China in general. Always. And get used to shitting into holes in the ground when out and about.

7. Write out the Chinese symbols for all of the tourist sights and addresses you need to visit in a little notepad to show to taxi drivers, etc. I'm telling you now that your pronunciation of Chinese using Pinyin might as well be Martian.

Client's information:: Mr.Charlie MC. Gee 2008-3-27 10:22